Joe Navarro Quotes

#1. Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

St. Jerome

#2. Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.

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#3. It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.

Alice Winocour

#4. The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

Terry Teachout

#5. The majority of individuals view their surroundings with a minimal amount of observational effort. They are unaware of the rich tapestry of details that surrounds them, such as the subtle movement of a person's hand or foot that might betray his thoughts or intentions.

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#6. The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, You see, but you do not observe.

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#7. Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#8. For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.

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#9. The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in
practical fashion.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

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#11. We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.

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#12. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Napoleon Hill

#13. There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

Michael Zaslow

#14. We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

Cassandra Clare

#15. them a healthy allowance.

Emma Andersen

#16. Research tells us liars tend to gesture less, touch less, and move their arms and legs less than honest people (Vrij, 2003, 65).

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#17. Neck touching takes place when there is emotional discomfort, doubt, or insecurity.

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#18. The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Pat Robertson

#19. Ticket agents can often identify passengers who will become problematic by how wide they position their arms when they are at the counter.

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#20. Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.

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#21. I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

Lisa Cholodenko

#22. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

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